Pipiou

Pierre Ardouvin

Pipiou, 202060 x 30cmPrice on Request
Details
MaterialGalleryLocation
gesso, acrylic, polystyrene, uv coat, woodPraz-DelavalladeParis
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

Visual Elements: The artwork features a vibrant green, spherical form with two large, round eyes and a simple, stylized face. The overall composition is minimalist, with the figure standing atop a white, cube-shaped pedestal against a plain, gray background. Subject Matter: The central subject is a whimsical, cartoon-like character, resembling a friendly and endearing creature or being. The addition of the orange, fork-shaped object next to the figure adds a playful and quirky element to the piece. Artistic Style and Technique: The artwork employs a clean, geometric style with a focus on bold, primary colors and simplified forms. The smooth, glossy surface of the green figure suggests the use of a contemporary, industrial material or medium. Context: This contemporary artwork likely aims to evoke a sense of lighthearted, childlike wonder and imagination. The artist's intention may be to present a humorous and thought-provoking commentary on the nature of identity, personification, or the relationship between everyday objects and conceptual art. ...

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Pipiou
Artist
Pierre Ardouvin
1955, French

Doing the maximum with the minimum, highlighting the difference, the strange, the « outside » by means of the most banal and hackneyed referents: that is Pierre Ardouvin’s artistic economy. His use of domestic materials, motifs and objects, manifestly subverted, is designed to challenge the emotions without really tricking the perceptions. The point, precisely, is to reveal the potential for the infernal and the marvellous contained in these commonplace material bodies — their natural reserve of dreams and nightmares, these being the two faces of one and the same faculty for wildness and escape, however prosaic and tangible their reality. And always, he maintains an ambiguous balance between pleasure and unease, intimacy and danger, suspension and fall. This imaginative charge takes us directly back to the realm of childhood, which constitutes the work’s subjacent temporal reference. The point is not to celebrate its so-called innocence but, on the contrary, to discover its emotional cruelty. The relation to play and toys is indeed manifest, and redoubles the recurrent practice of falsely naive drawings and watercolors and, in a more literary way, the references to the world of fairy stories. ...

Pierre Ardouvin: Artworks
Ecran de veille (Screensaver)
Pierre ArdouvinEcran de veille (Screensaver), 201311300 EUR
La nuit n'est pas finie (grotte)
Pierre ArdouvinLa nuit n'est pas finie (grotte), 201816000 EUR
Pipiou
Pierre ArdouvinPipiou, 2020Price on Request
Praz-Delavallade
Gallery
Praz-Delavallade
Paris, Los Angeles